King's Gold

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King's Gold
Author Glenn Macaskill
Country South Africa
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Crest Publishing
Publication date 2003
Media type Print (Paperback)
Pages 316 (first edition, paperback)
ISBN ISBN 0-620-31002-2 (first edition, paperback)

King's Gold is a novel by South African author Glenn Macaskill, published in 2003 by Crest Publishing. It contains graphic (though fictional) references to the Gukurahundi, the occupation of Matabeleland by Zimbabwe's Fifth Brigade in the 1980s. The majority of the book is centred around two main plotlines: The political efforts of the Zimbabwe African People's Union, and the discovery and subsequent extraction of an ancient treasure, a solid gold bird statue created at the whim of King Mzilikazi some 180 years before.